Lynda and Gerry, With a few exceptions, LDS Microfilms from the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City may only be rented at your local LDS Family History Center. They may not leave the local Center. The Center has viewing and copying equipment for the patrons. There is no restriction on who may use the center (non-Mormons are welcome). There is an effort underway to digitize the microfilms and make them available online, but IMO that will take another 10 years. In addition, the indexing of the data on the microfilms is an ongoing effort. (BTW, they are still looking for extractors to index data on the microfilms.) The location of LDS Family History Centers all over the world can be found on the LDS FamilySearch website. The same website has an online catalog of all of the millions of microfilms in the Family History Library, in addition to the oldest and largest free online genealogy databases (linked family trees and BMD data). I am a non-Mormon librarian at a local LDS Family History Center. At 10:29 PM 1/28/2008, you wrote: >From: "Lynda L. Jones" <lynda@houseofwaterdancer.com> >Subject: Re: [A-L] Finding research microfilm >To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> > >Valorie, > >Do you know how to purchase the microfilms? I've heard there's a way to do >it online, but I never have been able to find it. > >Best wishes, >Lynda Jones >Bloomsburg, PA USA >From: Gdhuhn@aol.com >Subject: Re: [A-L] Finding research microfilm >To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > >Thanks Valorie, that was me. Everyone was giving all of those microfilm #'s >and being the amateur I am I didn't know where to find them. > >Gerry Huhn